On 2016-08-08 14:39, James Cowgill wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On 08/08/16 14:35, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 02:53:35PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Hi folks, > >> > >> I'm seeing a fair number of test suite failures for strace on > >> mips64el, both in the most recent upload[1] and in current upstream > >> git HEAD[2]. It's looking like a lot of ENOSYS errors. Could I get > >> some porter help with this please? Otherwise I'm tempted to remove > >> mips64el from the arch list for the package. > >> > >> [1] https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=strace&arch=mips64el&ver=4.11-1&stamp=1452274105 > >> [2] http://www.einval.com/debian/strace/build-logs/mips64el/ > > > > Ping? Any help on this please? > > I'm having a look at this. > > In a preliminary check I found that about half the testsuite failures > were caused by a kernel bug in the ptrace handling of any syscalls > returning ENOSYS. The bug was fixed in 4.3 so testing strace on kernels > older than that probably isn't a good idea. There are still some other > failures though Do you have a pointer to the fix? If it is small enough and easily backportable, we can try to get it in the jessie kernel. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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